Movie Reviews of films that will be playing at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) in 2016. Go to TIFF 2016 Movie Reviews and read reviews of films showing at the festival.
CLAIR-OBSCUR (Turkey/Germany/Poland/France 2016) **
Directed by Yesim Ustaoglu
Starring: Mehmet Kurtulus, Metin Akdülger, Okan Yalabik
Review by Gilbert Seah
A female director’s film about two females. So expect a lot of feminine perspective to be presented in the story told. Turk director Yesim Ustaoglu offers a parallel study of two women — a psychiatrist with a long-time live-in partner and a wife in a conservative, nearly tyrannical household — in this study of the possibilities and limitations that exist for women in Turkey today.
A third through the film, their paths cross as the psychiatrist treats the other after a catastrophe.
Ustaoglu’s film clearly intends to show women’s hardships in terms of two different imprisonments of the two women…
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